Stephanie van Willigenburg | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

University of British Columbia

Stephanie van Willigenburg is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Her research has earned her numerous accolades, including the Krieger-Nelson Prize from the Canadian Mathematical Society in 2017 and the Robbins Prize from the Mathematical Association of America in 2023, both recognizing her outstanding contributions to mathematics. She was also inducted as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2023.

In addition to her research achievements, Stephanie has been recognized for her exceptional teaching with a Killam Award in 2008. She has delivered numerous plenary lectures, including an Invited Address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, the largest mathematics conference in the world.

Currently, Stephanie serves as the Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Science at UBC. She is also a co-founder of the Algebraic Combinatorics Research Community, which promotes mentoring, research collaborations, and networking opportunities for underrepresented groups in algebraic combinatorics and related fields.

Plenary Talk Abstracts De-clawing graph theory (Stephanie van Willigenburg) This talk requires no prior knowledge and will be a gentle introduction to colouring graphs, suitable for a broad audience including students. We will start with some...

This will be an in-person version of a Zoom workshop to be given at Grad and Postdoc Studies in December. It is open to all grad students and postdocs, not just those on the job market this year. Please come, learn, ask questions afterwards and give...

This annual event showcases the computational expertise of our Department and of other invited speakers. The program includes invited talks and a Poster Session which will cover diverse topics in mathematics with an emphasis on computation. All...

The Schur-positivity order on skew shapes is denoted by B A if the difference of their respective Schur functions is a positive linear combination of Schur functions. It is an open problem to determine those connected skew shapes that are maximal...

In algebraic combinatorics a central area of study is Schur functions. These functions were introduced early in the last century with respect to representation theory, and since then have become important in other areas such as quantum physics and...

Walks in the plane taking unit-length steps north and east from $(0,0)$ to $(n,n)$ never dropping below $x=y$, and parking cars subject to preferences, are two intriguing ingredients in a formula conjectured in 2005, now famously known as the shuffle...

The chromatic polynomial was generalized to the chromatic symmetric function by Stanley in his seminal 1995 paper. This function is currently experiencing a flourishing renaissance, in particular the study of the positivity of chromatic symmetric...